Posted on 11/08/2005 7:44:28 AM PST by Kitten Festival
Latin America: If you heeded the hype from gloomy hand wringers or news photos of shop-trashing anti-American thugs, you'd think President Bush left the Argentina summit in failure. It's nothing but rubbish.
Seldom has news been so distorted against facts. Most of the U.S. media claim that because the 34 states were obstructed from full agreement on a declaration to kick-start free trade by a few holdouts, it's some sort of victory for the chief obstructor, U.S. antagonist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
Just by the numbers, it's a false impression. Only five states at the Organization of American States summit in Mar del Plata withheld signing a statement to restart talks for a Free Trade of the Americas pact, and four of those — Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay — did so temporarily on valid concerns about farm subsidies.
The U.S. sympathizes with them, but is hamstrung by its larger trade relations with heavily subsidized Europe. That's why the U.S. is going to bat for those four at the World Trade Organization's 148-nation Doha Round of trade talks in Hong Kong this December.
That leaves just Venezuela obstructing free trade, and on ideological grounds. The real story is that 29 very different states — making up 90% of the hemisphere's GDP — endorsed free trade.
Even more encouraging, the summit's most articulate advocates for free trade spontaneously came from Latin American leaders whose nations have already experienced free trade.
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For once, I'm in agreement with the Argentines.
I don't like farm subsidies either. Ours or theirs.
MSM fails as news again. They don't even do the job they're called to do!
That's okay. We'll just leave Venezuela out of the agreement.
"Down goes Chavez!!!"
Great post!
I'm really, really starting to hate the MSM as never before.
Looks like the final score might be Bush 33- Chavez 1. That works for me.
Did you guys see Chavez bouncing around like he was at a night club?
I agree. Most of our farm subsidies are just corporate welfare. They have little to do with family farmers any more. It would be far cheaper just to give the farm families about $100k each and forget about subsidizing the crops.
When our farm subsidies destroy the agriculture industries in the third world, the next thing that happens is that all their agricultural workers end up here as illegal immigrants.
But, but, but the NYT editorial said that Bush's trip was an absolute failure and that they feared another 3 years of such a visionless and incompetent President.
The media is now simply running a 24/7 soap opera with Dubya cast as the arch villain.
I was watching the cable networks the afternoon they were tripping all over themselves to report on the staged "riots". Most reporters were breathless. The coverage had the usual "Oh the humanity" emotional handwringing tone. It was qutie humorous when the protesters all packed up to go home and it was revealed that the protest had been staged and planned for days as shopkeepers had closed down and boarded up in anticipation of the event from the USUAL SUSPECTS.
That would make an excellent tagline.
How can you think that way about our beloved Treason Media. It is doing its job very effectively; undermining righteouness and America at every opportunity.
I heard a commentary on WLS radio this morning talking about how you wouldn't know it from the MSM but that this trip had been a great success for Bush. It specifically cited this editorial as the one that got it right. What it comes down to is that if you discount the subsidy issue, only Chavez is opposed to the idea of free trade.
3- minute loop on Fox repeated 7 times.
I thought my Tardis was broken.
Umm... Brazil is MOST of South America. I think Argentina is the second largest country.
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